One year ago Kettle (http://kettle.pentaho.org) was open sourced under the LGPL license. I never ever anticipated that the consequences of doing that would be as “big” as they have been. Here are a few numbers to beat in the year to come:

1 RAD week at Pentaho (Orlando)
3 developer summits at Pentaho (Orlando)
5 releases (2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.0 &#038; 2.3.1)
53 team members
76 (registered) feature requests implemented
158 posters:
1570 posts by myself
1382 posts by “Anonymous”
257 posts by Hassan
138 posts by Sven
129 posts by Jens
…
363 (registered) bugs fixed
4.781 forum posts in 1257 threads.
8.713 source code commits by 20 people:
6709 by myself
510 by Tom Quinn
450 by Johnny Van Hentenryck
307 by Sven Boden
357 by Jens Bleuel
237 by Bernardo Arlandis
87.064 new lines of code
+100.000 downloadsThis is the perfect opertunity to send out a big thank you to all the people that downloaded Kettle and an even bigger thank you to all the folks that supported Kettle with comments, bug reports, source code, patches &#038; documentation! A big thank you also goes to all the companies that supported Kettle along the way by buying support contracts, filing feature requests with use-cases, providing us with new ideas, etc.
The numbers above show that Kettle development is going strong and is supported by a really nice community. (We have almost no trolling or flamebaits) Kettle is becoming better every day because of that and the new 2.4.0 release is shaping up to be a really nice release indeed.
It’s been an honour to be part of this wonderful open source story! Let’s take it to the next level in the coming year: there is nothing we can’t do in the ETL space…
Yours,
Matt
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